Year 4 Update – Wk 23
Monday 13th – Tuesday 21st March – Book Week: Dress up as your favourite book character on Monday 20th for the character parade!
Thursday 16th March – Y5 Market Day: Bring some money to buy some goodies and support a good cause!
Friday 24th March – International Food Fair: Keep selling those raffle tickets to win the class excursion!
Thursday 30th March – Spring Concert
Friday 31st March – End of Term 2 – Easter Holidays Begin! School ends at 12:00 noon.
Tuesday 18th April – First Day Back at School
Tuesday 25th April – Year 4 Bake Sale
Thrusday 27th April – Year 4 Theatre Trip
Tuesday 2nd May – BHS CPD Day: School Closed
Student-Led Conferences 2017
It was great to see so many of you today, thank you for taking the time from your busy schedules to celebrate the children’s achievements this year.
Portfolios
Please enjoy browsing through your child’s updated portfolio, then ensure it is back in school by Friday 10th March, thank you.
Book Week and Character Dress-up Day
Please note that this year Book Week will focus on Maths and Literacy and will last for 7 school days (instead of the usual 5!). We are delighted that we have several author visits lined up this year! More details about this fun and popular week will follow soon. It might be a good idea to start thinking about your Book Character costume ready for the parade at school on Monday 20th March.
Health and well-being
As you will have seen in notices sent home recently, there have been some cases of scarlet fever and chicken pox at the school. We would be very grateful if you could remind your child to wash their hands frequently throughout the day and to stay home if unwell.
How We Express Ourselves
Central Idea: Nature, purpose and creativity inspire the design of structures in the community
Lines of Inquiry
An inquiry into:
- Architecture in the local and global environment (reflection)
- Elements that influence design (perspective)
- Pattern and shapes in structures (form)
Natural Elements
The summative task for this unit of inquiry will continue with us reflecting further on our Design Engineering Day with Mr. Edwards and thinking about how the structures we created could be further improved.
Central Idea – Shapes can be identified, classified and used in different ways
Lines of Inquiry:
- The relationship between 2D and 3D Shapes
- Symmetry and transformations can be found in our environment
- Angles in 2D and 3D shape
Next week the children will be consolidating their learning about transformations (rotation, translation, reflection) and be undertaking the pre-assessment for our next area of Maths; Fractions.
- develop characters to engage readers in stories
- write stories with familiar settings told in first person
Next week we will have a big focus on narrative so that by the end of the week, the students have had the opportunity to plan, edit and publish a piece of narrative writing that they can feel really proud of.
Comprehension Key: Making connections
We are continuing to make connections while reading. We have thought about three types of connections – text-to-self, text-to-text and text-to-world. We are particularly focusing on the connections we can make with characters in order to help us understand their point-of-view/perspective. in the story as this will support our narrative writing.
Home Learning 3.3.17 – Complete SLC reflection
As we have had the student-led conferences this week and the children have worked hard to prepare for them, there is just a small homework task this week. Share your portfolio with your family and return it by next Friday.
Daily home reading
A reminder that the colour of the home reading book your child brings home will reflect their reading ability at the end of Year 3. However, as reading assessments continue over the course of the coming few weeks, this may or may not change. PLEASE be reminded that the colour sticker on the reading book your child brings home is far less significant than the development of fluency AND comprehension. There is also an expectation that your child will read a book and complete any quizzes on Reading Eggspress twice a week.
Spelling
The children will have 10 new words to learn each week (Friday) and will be tested on them by a classmate three times per week. The words they have consist of some vocabulary relevant to our current U.O.I., some words relating to the spelling rule that we are currently learning about and some words of their choice.
